DUNIA FLEIHAN, 31, SMALL BUSINESS ADVOCATE
In some ways, Dunia Fleihan had been preparing for her career as a small business advocate for her entire working life.
She grew up running the register and taking lunch orders at her family’s small business: Greensboro beloved Mediterranean food joint, Ghassan’s.
“Everything that I acquired in my life at some point was because of the relationships I built with the customers there,” says Dunia, who studied political science at Elon University and got a Master’s in Public Administration from UNCG.
It was one of those Ghassan’s customers who first turned Dunia on to Triad Local First, a nonprofit membership organization that supports locally-owned businesses. She first joined as a board member to help promote the group, and now works as its sole staffer and Director of Operations.
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